The confidence may come from his relief over Wednesday's announcement that Greg Ives will be his crew chief in 2015. "The one thing that I was probably most happy about or relieved about was to be able to make a decision and just get it done," Earnhardt Jr. said. In the two days since Ives was revealed as Steve Letarte's successor, positive feedback from inside the walls of Hendrick Motorsports has convinced Earnhardt Jr. that he has the right personnel to continue the success he has seen under Letarte. "Number one, it was great to hear how confident Rick (Hendrick) and Doug (Duchardt, Hendrick Motorsports general manager) and Chad (Knaus, crew chief of the No. 48 car) and all them were in this particular choice," Earnhardt Jr. said. More...